When you listen to what the sounds youre hearing right now that is by all accounts automatic weapons fire. That is a highly sophisticated, highly regulated weapon in this country. And this person, Stephen Paddock, was on the 32nd floor simply firing indiscriminately at a packed crowd of Country Music fans below. Pete williams has been tracking down his sources, giving us new information all morning long on a story that happened about five hours ago. Pete, whats the latest you can tell us . Reporter were told now, matt, that when the authorities entered his hotel room they found several weapons. We dont know yet what kind of weapons those were, and we know theres an urgent trace going on to try to figure out what the weapons were. One question here is we know that hes dead and the assumption here among the federal authorities ive been talking to is that he was shot by the police that breached the room, but were working to confirm that whether he shot himself or whether he was shot by th
Or fireworks. It turned out to be gunfire coming from a high floor. During a News Conference the sheriff of clark county announced that more than 20 people are dead, more than 100 others wounded. Officials say the gunman was on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay resort firing down with what has been described as an automatic weapon, a submachine gun, at the crowd below. Police eventually got up to the 32nd floor of that hotel. They breached the door of that room, and the gunman is now dead. Police do know who this person is. They have not identified him publicly. Theyve just said its a local resident of nevada, las vegas. Theres a search under way for a woman who was traveling with him. Authorities called her his companion. Her name marilou danley. We also know that she is 62 years old. We understand, again, were not identifying the suspect, but he is said also to be in his 60s. And now we apparently are able to identify the suspect. Pete williams has that information. Pete . Reporter
We are awaiting a press briefing from the Las Vegas Police officials in any minute. But first lets go to our very own hillary vaughn. Charles they are walking out right now. We are on a 20second delay for the live view. Carlos, you ready . All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Im obviously sheriff lombardo, clark county. This will be our fourth Briefing Since the incident took place yesterday evening. Ill give you a short synopsis of our updates, then we have other individuals standing behind me to make comments. So, there is two things we are attempting to achieve. We have to finish processing the scenes. We have three separate scenes, it will be four at this point. We have the 32nd floor of the room at the mandalay bay. We have the event location. The house in mesquite and now we have s. W. A. T. Getting ready to hit the house in northern nevada. At this point we did in the last briefing, i was unable to tell you what we retrieved from the house of mesquite. We retrieved in excess of
Holloway drove through a busy portion of the Las Vegas Stripand Authorities Say it was intentional. Plus were learning more about the victims and the woman charged with the crime. Good evening. Im Denise Valdez. paul joncich and im paul joncich. Dave and paula are off tonight. Metro Police Leaders releasing more information today about the scary ordeal. Denise Valdez we have Live Team Coverage of the crash. 8 news now reporter karen castro is live outside umc with the latest on the injured and the woman who lost her life. paul joncich iteam investigator glen meek dug into the driverss background. But first. Mauricio marin joins us live from las vegas boulevard and harmon with more on what police have discovered. Mauricio Marin although the investigation has wrapped up on scene. Metro Police Say Detectives are now combing through surveillance camera footage and witness statements to see why Lakeisha Holloway may have done this. Sheriff joe lombardo says some from hurting even more peopl
Kirsten Joyce spotlight this morning. After metro police say a driver strip. One person was killed. More than 2 dozen others seriously injured including a child. Kirsten Joyce good morning,. Brian is off. This happened last night on the paris. We have Team Coverage this morning Michael Stevens is live at umc where some of those people are being treated. And Patrick Walker is live on crash. Lets begin with patrick. Began. Patrick . Patrick Walker kirsten. Part of our famed Las Vegas Strip is blocked this morning. As authorities continue piecing together what led a female driver in her 20s. To mow down dozens of pedestrians on a sidewalk near the paris casino deputy chief Brett Zimmerman las vegas pd we have determined that this is an International Act that means will be handling the investigation Patrick Walker witnesses were left in shock as the woman took off. All while a toddler sat in the backseat. witness it looked like she wasnt even trying to stop the car. She had both of her han